beautiful weather

well I love fall and this year the weather has been great,cool mornings but gets very nice during the day,harvest is progressing beans are done and corn is coming slow,because of the high wind from the hrricane we have alot of down corn,Chris is going around it some and hopefully we will have another tool to use or have someone harvest it for us,the yield is about 1/2 of the normal BUT we are very thankful for it,as dry as it was this summer things coiuld have been ALOT worse,as always God is good!!Fall also means craft shows!! We went to the really big one in findley last weekend it was very good! We have several we go to each year,it is always very fun time! Today we went to Homer and Roslyn Stutsman 50th anniversary party,they had a very nice party,even Kevin made it home from Arkansas,that made it very special for them!~
Wel;l I hope you are having a very nice fall,God id good isnt he?

harvest!

hi! well harvest is underway,Chris has combined 3 fieldsof soybeans and the yield is pretty low,but with the drought we have had this summer this was expected. It is always neat to see how God works,he is in charge of the crops and we just have to trust Him! Our oldest daughter, Cathy , had a birthday this week,seems like only yesterday she was born! She is doing great teaching in tennessee and we love her and miss her very much! My garden isnt producing much hopefully we will still get a few tomatoes and a few potatoes yet. We have missions conference this week,this is my favorite conference of the year,I soo enjoy getting to know new and renew aquaintances with our some of the missionaries we support. Bro Phil Schipper preaches for us and I love to hear him preach,I am looking forward to his wife and family being with him since they are now traveling togather in a mobile home. We always keep a family and this year we are keeping a family of five,it is always fun to get to know them! Well I hope you have a blessed week,fall is upon us,I enjoy the cool mornings!!

UPDATE

greetings! Last sunday our founding pastor ,Ron Boldman visited our church,it was a very nice surprise for everyone! Pastor Ewing was glad to meet him and the next day they got togather for lunch.It sounded like it was a nice time. We are being to work on a church anniversary celebration,if you or anyone you know used top attend here we would like to have names and addresses if possible,we are compiling a list to send invitations to we wouild like to invite everyone who used to be a member here. I went up to the ladies meeting in Gaylord this weekend,I took Carrie a trunk full of things a few small tables and just stuff she needed,we stayed with her ,she has a very cute little apartment,she loves it! We heard Mrs Cathy Berry and Mrs Loretta Walker and of course pastor and Mrs Jenkins [the pastor and his wife] I was very blessed we heard alot of good stuff! Melissa our pastor's wife got to play their version of the price is right,she enjoyed it alot! We are getting ready for missions conf a week from Wednesday.It's my favorite conference of the year! We are keeping a family going to mexico for the week. Well I hope you have a great week! Keep Christ First!

catching up!

Greetings! Well in my last post I told you about Trina who was dying of cancer,well 2 weeks ago today she went home to be with the Lord,please continue to pray for husband and family.
We left after her funeral to go to Gaylord Mi to take Carrie some furniture and to help her move her stuff to her new apartment,it is very nice and she is doing well! While we were there we also got to spend alittle time with Domanic and his parents,we ate supper with them after we got there and then Domanic helped move carries stuff! We met him for breakfast on saturday morning and then contunued to get Carrie settled in we left about 6 pm to come home.
With our dry weather this summer the corn is drying up fast,Chris is getting busy filling silo and fixing the chopper! Hopefully they will get alot of that done this week. On Friday and saturday the men are having a special leadership meeting at church.
Yesterday Chris brought home a new 2008 chevy Silverado truck! if you know us very well you can probably guess the color.....
My garden ios starting to produce beans,we ot it out VERY late soo we are reaping late! It is nice to get some beans the last 2 years havent been good for our garden.
Well hope all is well with you,i'm soo glad I serve a great God! till later...

Great summer!

Well it's been a long time since i have written on here,i have tried several times to put on pictures and i just cant seem to make it work. i am NOT computer savvy!
We started the summer with so much rain that we had trouble getting the crops in, all the corn we planted looks good now but for awhile it looked pretty bad,they planted then replanted and sometimes replanted again so the fields look alittle funny.
The whole family took a vacation to South Dakota,we had a really nice and memorable time,I was really impressed with the Badlands and Mount Rushmore was really neat! We took a tour which was nice,we could see all the important things so we didn't miss anything! We visited a town called Deadwood and saw a gunfight in the street and allot old cars and things of famous people including the Herbie car! We also saw the graves of a few famous gunfighters of the old west. What we didnt know is that town is a gambling town ! We also got to see the Nathan and Julie martin,they live in yankton so we stopped and took them out for supper. All in all it was fun trip,alot of fun memories!!
We had the privilege of having Sam Knickerbocker spend some time with us,he is the son of Pete and Isabelle our friends and missionaries to France.
we soo enjoyed having him here a few times while he was working in Lima as a intern at a church.
We have had the girls home a few times each and that has been a blessing! Both are doing very well,Cathy teaching and Carrie as school secretary,I miss them both but i am excited that they are both serving the Lord!
On a sad note our friend and neighbor Trina Gast is suffering in the last stages of cancer and is in alot of pain,please pray for her and her family as they trust the lord to know what's best for them at this time.
Craig begins classes next monday in Lima at UNOH it is a technical school ,he will be studing Ag mechanics,he is excited to get started.
Hope the rest of your summer is great!! love to hear from you.

Busy times!

Greetings!
I'm sorry it's been soo long since i posted,alot has happened around here!
I went back to the Dr.three weeks ago and found out i had somehow pulled one of my anchors partly out of my bone,I had to put my boot back on ,since that time my anchor is once again back in my bone,praise the lord and i am going to be out of my boot by the end of this week!
As you know Chris is very busy this time of year,especially this year with all the rain we have been behind,they got everything planted and then had to do some replanting.I think we are still needing to replant some beans.We were behind in getting the hay made, so last week it was a fight to get the hay made before the rain,then the hay was drier than it needs to be for the silo so they ended up making it dry and blowing it in the barn. This week Chris is trying to get the nitrogen on the corn before it gets too tall to get in the field,so far so good,he has to wait on a applicator soo it is time to do other stuff like fix the truck ect!! Because of the weather and my inability to work in the garden Chris finally planted beans over the weekend but doesn't have anything else done.With my boot i cant do any of that.we aren't planting as big as normal but its still bigger than I want! Besides all that we are having bible School this week,its a blessing Chris didn't have anything to do there this year since he is busy at the farm.
We plan to take a vacation with the kids next week,hopefully we will leave Monday for MT Rushmore,I guess we will all drive since it is a LONG drive! Please pray for safety for us on the roads!
One of Cathy's old roommates and good friend Mary Qualls is getting married this weekend,Craig is going down to Tenn for that,then coming back with Cathy on Sunday,Carrie will also come home sunday afternoon.
Last Monday i had a milestone birthday,Yes 50!! god has been good to me and i am thankful for all the things that he has brought my way! Someone gave me a card that said i hope you have 50 more...well i am not so sure that is what i want,I cant imagine living to 100!!
thanks for reading my post,I trust all is well with you and your families.I sure enjoy reading the blogs that i have address's for it's fun to see what is going on in your world!

Spring is in the air!

Greetings!
It has been awhile since i have updated so i will try to remember everything! My foot is improving very slow! I am milking again full time and doing everything I can in the yard and the house. I am slow at yard stuff but i get alittle accomplished every time i go out. I asked prayer for Denise Brophy,she has taken 2 shots now and is virtually pain free ,praise theLord for that,as they see now no surgery is in the immediate future,God is good!! Chris has begun to plant but it is wet again now he is hoping tomorrow will work,since they are saying rain again on Wednesday night. Craig will be home in about a week,we are looking forward to having him back,chris really misses his help,he will go to northwestern in the fall which is a technical school in lima. Church is going great,God has blessed with about 8 weeks straight of having someone saved,praise the Lord! We are beginning graduation time,Chris's nieces husband Matthew frnch graduates from college tonight.I am sure they are excited about that! We have several graduations here and 2 girls graduating from kindergarten,how exciting!! Well i hope you are all enjoying spring as much as I am!! Have a great5 week and enjoy God's beautiful creation!!

Catching Up

Greetings!!!
Alot has happened since my last post,I am now walking without my boot!It is a blessing!

I am taking therapy and that is helping,I have alot of tenderness and when im on my feet for awhile it swells up. I am milking about an hour every milking now,Is nice to be back doing what im used to doing! I have to sit quite a bit yet ,but that's ok! I hired a couple girls from our church to work in our yard some picking up sticks and raking up the nuts I couldnt get done last fall,they got a start but its far from done.
I asked you topray for Denise Brpohy last post,she went to the surgeon last friday and he is going to do a epideral and see if that helps if not she will have to have surgery. He was alot more comfident about the surgery than her family dr was,he seems to think they could do it without complications so that was a real burden lifted off her! She is in alot of pain so we would appreciate your prayers as she continues to deal with this situation.
Thanks again for your prayers,hopefully I will be back to walking without pain or a limp soon!! Enjoy the spring flowers!!!

Making Improvement

Well I am doing much better,last Tuesday the doctor finally gave me the go ahead to start taking walking alittle at a time on my foot!Glory!!! I had my first shower in over 5 weeks and now i am on a crutch.I started friday putting weight on my foot and by this weekend I will be walking on my own and have my "boot" off! I started physical therapy today and it went well,the therapist was surprised how mobile my foot was,I was glad to hear that,hopefully a few weeks of therapy and working it at home and I will be back to normal,I am READY!!! Thank you everyone for your prayers,I know alot of people have been praying for me and I am very grateful.
On to other news I have a good friend who needs alot of prayer right now,I am asking everyone to pray for Denise Brophy,she was having some pain down her arm and it got bad enough to go to the Dr ,he did a MRI and found she has a bulging disk,herniated disk,and protruding disk in her neck,she is going to see a neurosurgeon on Friday.He dr told her having surgery would be VERY risky,she could be paralysed PLEASE pray for her that God would give the drs wisdom on what to do and that she could recover quickly,thank You!! My sister in law turned 50 this weekend,wow are we getting old or what???

NK RANGERS # 1

Wow what a fun day! We went to Columbus on Saturday and watched our team win the state tourneyment it was great! They are a fun team to watch,they won easily 74-52 So NK won their first state title EVER! We went to the gym and waited for the team to return and they had a welcome home for them,fireworks,fire trucks,police cars and wow what excitment! They all had a chance to talk and we heard from the coaches. Then on Monday i got news that my cousin who had been battling cancer for about a year and half passed away,So sad, we are praying for her family she left behind her husband 2 children and grandchildren. Then i went to the dr on monday,my infection is almost gone but he wants to give it another week before I do any therapy or put any weight on it,so hopefully after next tuesday i will be able to do alittle bit more,i am looking forward to that! Cathy came home on spring break that is nice It is always nice to have my kids home! Craig had been home for the tourneyment, his car has been in the transmission shop it was suppose to be done,BUT it wasnt so he had to wait on cathy to get here and take her car back down to tenn. Carrie will come home saturday and craig too so we will be home togather for 1 day,,I am looking forward to that!! Well have a wonderful Easter,remember
WHY WE CELEBRATE....JESUS LIVES!!!!

WE WON!

Wow what excitment at the tourneyment game in Columbus last night! Our team won last night and now play the State Title game on Saturday! We are going to watch this team make history! New Knoxville has never won a state title NEVER! So we are excited! I am doing well today. Sabrina Bradshaw came over today and had a get well party for me ,they made me a cake and we had a good time with balloons!Thank You Sabrina,she is a very dear friend,she's there whenever I need her. I am sitting here listening to Grace Baptist Church's radio station in Gaylord It is a blessing.Right now they are playing the song I'm Blessed ,oh How I need to remember that! I am SO blessed! A wonderful Husband,wonderful children wonderful family wonderful church family. God is sooo Good!! Well have a great day and rememeber you are Blessed!!

Our team to State tourneyments tonight!!

Greetings! Our team played sunday late afternoon and won so tonight they play the first game of the state touneyment if we win we play for the state title saturday This is a big deal in our town because none has ever won state and it has been over 60 years since they have made it to a state game GO RANGERS!!!! On the home front I went to the dr on monday and he took out all my stitches and cut off dead skin{ouch} He found I have an infection and is treating me for it with a very strong antibiotic because it is close to my bone and he doesnt want it to get into my bone so hopefully this will clear it up and i can start some physical theraphy next week! Please pray for my infection to clear up,I know God is in control ! I am learning to live by the verse in whatsoever state i am to be content this has been a hard lesson for me to learn! hope all is well in your family,I love to read everyones blogs! Have a great day!

Big snow storm Hits!

Well this week has been a eventful one! On Tuesday my sister Chris and her husband came home from Virginia to attend a funeral of one of their friends in Indiana, Joel Abberger who passed away after a long battle with cancer.They came over Tuesday evening just as we were getting ready to leave for dayton in a ice storm to see our hometeam boys high school basketball team play in the reginal semi-final game . We went and our Rangers Won! So we were suppose to go the game tonight again in dayton but a BIG snowstorm is upon us so the game was postponed! Craig came home on spring break on Wednesday night,he was suppose to come Thursday but surprised us and came Wednesday instead! Thank you craig! He is spending everyday helping his dad milk since I cannot.which is a big blessing to his dad andI since he knows the ropes at the farm he makes life alot easier for his dad! On Monday the dr. took out a few stiches and said he would probably take out the rest next week! Then it will be therapy and hopefully back on my feet soon!! We rented a scooter thing that I put my knee on and push with the other foot,it is great makes me alot more mobile! I will try to post a pic soon,i havent yet got this all figured out and i need a picture taken first! Thank you for praying for me through all this, I am not very good at staying down!

Greetings! I hopeI finally have the right address for this blog,I sent the wrong one to everyone sorry! Both chris and I are doing better,I still have some but am much better today!! I am so thankful for that! Craig called today and said I didnt even mention Carrie {sorry carrie!}That's what being sick can do! Well Carrie is in Gaylord Mi being a secretary at the christian school there,she is enjoying the challenge! She is doing very well. We are expecting another small snow storm again tonight,I am ready for spring!! Seems like we have had alot of snow and cold weather,we will probably have a very cold Easter! But I know God is in control!! Have a great day!

Not so good news

Well I had a dr appointment Monday and found outI will be off my foot for 6 weeks! I was very unhappy,but Iknow God knows what he's doing with my life! So I will try to make the most out of being mostly confined to the house. Yesterday I came down with the flu,Chris hasnt been feeling well since the weekend,but mine has been different. I am thankful to be feeling some better today.Well I hope all is well and that you are enjoying your day..

Welome to our Blog!

Greetings! I am excited about having our own blog! I read every one's I know to keep up on what is going on,soo I will try to keep you up what is happening on this end of the world. I had surgery just a little over a week ago and am totally off that foot for awhile.i go to the doctor today and will know a little more,hopefully only one more week. It is getting old not being able to get around!
Chris caught the flu over the weekend and felt pretty bad but i think today he is a little better,seems like very bad timing but the Lord is in control! Otherwise he is busy working on a old car for a guy in West Virginia and working on farm equipment. We are getting ready to put new carpet and padding on our church pews so he will be helping do some remodeling of the platform before they lay the carpet soo he is busy!Craig is in Tennessee going to crown college and living with his sister. They are doing very well togather and that is a blessing.
Well I will try to keep you updated on our lives here i hope you enjoy reading it !!